Chapter 805 Cement reinforced city gate tower? Dorgon wants to guard for half a month

Author: Linglinghou

Chapter 805 Cement reinforced city gate tower? Dorgon wants to guard for half a month

So many artillery were set up on the side of the city gate?

How can I guard this city?

Dorgon looked at the light cannon outside the city and felt a little cold.

It was also at this time that he realized that he and the Qing Dynasty still did not know enough about the Ming Dynasty.

He knew that the Ming Navy was very powerful now, but he didn't expect that the Ming Navy could come so quickly to encircle Jingjing, but he actually brought so many artillery here.

It was at this time that he felt more and more that the power of the Ming Dynasty was mainly due to the powerful military capabilities of the Ming Dynasty for the manufacturing of artillery, muskets, etc. The size of the Qing Dynasty was completely impossible to be an opponent when the Ming Dynasty was not terminally ill or even rejuvenated.

Unfortunately, he understood this too late.

Looking at the panic look of the generals inside and outside the city gate tower, he knew that it would be difficult to do if he wanted to guard Jingjing for a few more days as he had imagined so that Dong'e and the others could delay more time.

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Four miles away from the East City Gate.

The head coach Zeng Ying, the two deputy coaches Huang Fei and Yan Yingyuan, who besieged Qing Lu Jingjing, were both holding binoculars and looking at the city walls of the capital on an artificially built earth slope.

A few days ago, Zeng Yingcai led the main force of the Northern Route Army to capture Xianjing. If he took the land route and the mountain road was difficult, it would never be possible to arrive at Jingjing hundreds of miles away so quickly.

But Xianjing (Hanxing) is also a coastal city. Zeng Ying took the Navy's ship with Tibiao Town and appeared outside Jingjing at this time.

Otherwise, he, the coach, would have missed the last battle of Mie Qing.

"I just saw a person dressed in a high-level Qinglu general who entered the city gate tower. I don't know who it was. Now that the artillery is ready, it's better to hit his family first. Maybe one round of artillery can kill a Qinglu general." Huang Fei put down his telescope and suggested.

Zeng Ying also put down the telescope and said boredly: "The so-called mirror wall of the Qing Lu is probably unable to stop the several rounds of bombings of the Light Cannon."

Then he signaled the commander behind him to ask the cannon general to fire the cannon.

As for Yan Yingyuan, he did not express much opinion.

Although he has been in the military for quite some time and has been the deputy admiral of the Oriental Navy for nearly two years, he asked himself that his experience in commanding tens of thousands of troops to siege the city was much worse than that of Zeng Ying, and Huang Fei, so this time he mainly participated with a learning attitude.

However, after hearing Zeng Ying's words, he couldn't help but think that with the current strength of the Ming Dynasty's army, the Qing army was naturally not worthy of being an opponent.

Perhaps only by crossing the ocean and competing with those European maritime powers can the Ming army find its opponent again.

Of course, this is just his guess.

According to his experience in Nanyang, the Netherlands and Spanish Navy are undoubtedly strong, but for the army, the Spanish Army is still good, but the Dutch Army is a bit awkward, and it may not be as good as the elite of the Qing army.

Boom boom boom...

As Yan Yingyuan's thoughts flew to the Southeast Asian and Europe, thirty light cannons roared and fired a flowering bullet, bombarding the city wall.

Although Zhu Niang's control over smokeless gunpowder-related technologies, the flowering bullet has not been used yet.

However, even if black gunpowder is used as raw material, after years of innovation and optimization by many outstanding craftsmen and even scholars (researchers), the power of the Ming Dynasty's flowering bullet has been greatly improved compared with the first year of Zhaowu.

Although the Qing emperors were prepared and even built fortifications like anti-cannon pits on the city wall, dozens of people were killed and injured by this round of flowering bombs, and many wall tiles and even wall sets were damaged.

However, after seeing the effect of this round of artillery, Zeng Ying looked at the city gate tower with a telescope again, and then said with a look of ugly expression: "Some domestic businessmen deserve to kill them! They actually stole the cement to the Qinglu!"

Huang Fei and Zeng Ying also looked at the city gate tower again when they heard the sound. They suddenly found that the city gate tower was hit by the bombardment of many flowering bullets, and the mud layer outside fell off and the inside was intact. After a closer look, it turned out to be made of cement and rocks, and some places were even painted with a layer of cement!

Although from this city gate tower, the Qing emperors must not have bought much cement from the Ming Dynasty, which was probably enough to build a city gate tower, Zeng Ying and Huang Fei were still angry.

Huang Fei said: "It seems that His Majesty was not cruel enough to fight against Shanxi merchants who colluded with enemies and treasons, and he failed to scare some people who were greedy for money. After only a few years, they were jealous of money again."

Yan Yingyuan was also very angry, but knew that this was not the time to care about this matter, so he advised: "A city gate tower will have little impact on the war. Later, he reported to Your Majesty and let the court have a department to investigate and handle it strictly."

"Yeheng is right." Zeng Ying nodded and extinguished his anger. "Not just a city gate tower, even if the Jingjing is built with cement, we will destroy it!"

Then he ordered all battalions and chiefs to attack the city step by step.

Previously, after collecting western Liaoning, Liaodong, and invading North Korea, the Ming army accumulated a lot of experience in collaborative infantry and artillery siege.

At this time, thirty artillery pieces caught the city and hit three rounds in a row. Especially under the drone reconnaissance, the Qing army placed red cannons, which were all taken care of. This made six of the ten red cannons on the east city wall roll down from the cannon position before they even fired, making it difficult to reset for a while.

Although the remaining four red cannons fired cannons, with their actual power, frequency and range, it is difficult to pose a threat to the Ming army's artillery positions.

In the end, the red cannons on the Qing army's city almost became decorations and had no effect at all.

The East City Gate was taken care of by two large-caliber Guangming cannons with live ammunition.

However, the Qing army was prepared for this move and sealed it with earth and stone behind the city gate. Even if the Ming army had heavy artillery, it would be difficult to break it for a while.

Zeng Ying was unwilling to wait any longer. Seeing that three rounds of artillery were over, there was no movement on the east city wall, so he immediately ordered the infantry to attack the city.

The ladders, siege vehicles and other equipment used by the Ming army to siege the city were all made of good wood and light steel. They were light and durable, easy to use and strong defenses.

Without the support of cannons, the Qing army had no choice but to face the approach of the Ming army's siege equipment, so they could only wait for ladders, siege cars, etc. to approach the city wall.

When the Ming army broke into the city, the Qing army surviving on the city was immediately started to defend with the reprimand of the generals.

I still use the same old tricks as before - bows and arrows, muskets, rolling stones, throwing gold juice, etc.

Because Dorgon personally took charge of the East City Wall, the soldiers used were all Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners Army, even though they suffered nearly one-fifth of casualties in the six rounds of artillery fire, the remaining four-fifths of the generals and soldiers still did not flee and tried hard to defend.

Although the Ming army under the city used flintlock spearmen to suppress the city, the Ming army that was driving the city was still suffering from casualties under the Qing army's defensive routine.

Dorgon showed his head slightly at a wall of arrows reinforced by cement. Seeing this scene, he felt a little relieved.

To boost morale, he said to the guards on both sides: "Although the Ming army's artillery fire is strong, as long as we survive, they still have to attack the city honestly.

As long as we attack the city, they will suffer casualties. If we resist the first few waves of attacks, the Ming army will definitely not be able to withstand the casualties and retreat.

In this way, it would not be a problem if we keep Jingjing for a few days or a half months."

As for the Ming army's withdrawal, Dorgon did not dare to say that. Even if he boosted morale, he could not completely deviate from reality.

If the war reaches this point, if they are not destroyed, the Ming army will not be able to retreat.

The guards around him were very thoughtful and had a high status. Even Feng Quan was shackled in the corner. I don’t know if it was purely scared or something, but no one answered Dorgon’s words for a while, which made him a little embarrassed.

But soon he didn't have to think about it because something even more embarrassing happened.

When the Ming army's guns and cannons stopped, shrill shouts came from both south and north.

"The city is broken!"

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